- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Evening News Quotes
On the ritual of tuning into the nightly broadcast.
Several of these evening news quotes touch on how little the format of nightly broadcasts has changed over the decades, even as the stories they cover shift. For more on lasting convictions, see our Believe quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Collectively, we must do more than simply watch, with resignation and a feeling of powerlessness, reports on the evening news about the latest terrorist atrocity.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Blacks were too scared to do anything, but they came out to greet James Meredith': That would have been the story in the evening news if I hadn't gotten myself shot. I got shot, and that allowed the movement protest thing to take over then and do their thing.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish more people read hard copies of the newspaper and watched the evening news from start to finish.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine what it would be like if you didn't know that the evening news was funded primarily by 'Big Pharma.' You would actually believe the stuff that they're saying. You might even think those are the stories that matter.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news, and I always wanted to be that. His evening news was really a conversation with America, and I hope that's something I can achieve.
- Evolving
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- Nov 07, 2020
The evening news is evolving rapidly, and I think we have to be extraordinarily nimble.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every once in a while, a book so possesses me that I happily give up a couple of consecutive nights of sleep - as well as the evening news broadcasts and latenight talk shows - to finish it. That's what happened when I opened the novel 'Shadow Tag' by Louise Erdrich.
- Gone
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- Nov 07, 2020